linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next 4/4] vxlan: vnifilter: fix memcpy with u64

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Message-ID: <20260120092137.2161162-5-mmyangfl@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:21:32 +0800
From: David Yang <mmyangfl@...il.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: David Yang <mmyangfl@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
	Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>,
	Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@...hat.com>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>,
	Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>,
	Carolina Jubran <cjubran@...dia.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next 4/4] vxlan: vnifilter: fix memcpy with u64_stats

On 64bit arches, struct u64_stats_sync is empty and provides no help
against load/store tearing. memcpy() should not be considered atomic
against u64 values. Use u64_stats_copy() instead.

Signed-off-by: David Yang <mmyangfl@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c
index adc89e651e27..cde897d92f24 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static void vxlan_vnifilter_stats_get(const struct vxlan_vni_node *vninode,
 		pstats = per_cpu_ptr(vninode->stats, i);
 		do {
 			start = u64_stats_fetch_begin(&pstats->syncp);
-			memcpy(&temp, &pstats->stats, sizeof(temp));
+			u64_stats_copy(&temp, &pstats->stats, sizeof(temp));
 		} while (u64_stats_fetch_retry(&pstats->syncp, start));
 
 		dest->rx_packets += temp.rx_packets;
-- 
2.51.0